cat blues

Yukichi Maomao returned to Yokohama with three cubs sadly. As soon as he returned to the detective agency, the big cat rushed to Fukuzawa Yukichi and asked for the super-charged cat language translator.Holding the translator, Yukichi Maomao excitedly talked to Edogawa Ranpo about the nonsensical case that he encountered today.

When the people in the office were so excited to see Yukichi Maomao, everyone was very curious. When Yukichi Maomao ran to the president to ask for a translator, Osamu Dazai took advantage of the opportunity and asked Atsushi Nakajima who came back together. What happened, in the end they heard such a shocking thing as a murder case at the school festival of Tokyo University of Foreign Studies.

"You actually put the body on display in such a conspicuous place, the murderer must hate that guy." Yosano Akiko was originally finishing the report, but today she and Edogawa Ranpo went to the Kanagawa Prefectural Police Station to deal with some before They also just came back not long ago for the remaining entrustment. When they heard about this matter, she also had a rather shocked look on her face.

"I don't think it's hate."

"I don't think it's hatred."

Edogawa Ranpo and Osamu Dazai spoke at the same time.

The conclusions drawn by these two bigwigs together are not conjectures, but absolute facts.

When Yuji Maomao came out, he just heard their voices, and couldn't help but tilt his head in confusion. The cat couldn't hear clearly, what were you talking about just now?

"Ah, Mr. Yukichi, you are here. Come on, Aton just said that you encountered a murder case while watching a movie at Towai University." Edogawa Ranpo spoke first.

Yuji Maomao nodded decisively, then handed him the cat language translator, and began to purr in a low voice.

"Only Mr. Ranpo can see it, it's so unfair!" Dazai Osamu made such a voice decisively, and then pushed Atsushi Nakajima beside him, "Aton, go and read the content on the translator."

"Okay..." Atsushi Nakajima obediently ran to the translator, Edogawa Ranpo didn't mind, and handed the translator directly to the white-haired child for him to read.

Yukichi Maomao was a little nervous. After all, he was a cat and said that if Edogawa Ranpo read it alone, even if some of his words were confusing, he believed that with the understanding ability of the other party, he would never make a mistake, but now he wants to tell you Listen, everyone, are you really okay?

Yujimaomao rubbed its cat's face with its paw, and then began to purr slowly.

Atsushi Nakajima relayed the other party's words, although it was a bit slow, it often happened that after he finished a sentence, Yuji Maomao was still considering his words and didn't call out for a long time.

Fortunately, no one urged them. After the initial confusion, Yuji Maomao quickly spoke out all the words smoothly.

Akutagawa brothers and sisters made up for some incomplete parts, and Akutagawa Yin also sent several photos of the scene to everyone.

"I see. I understand the general situation." Edogawa Ranbu put down the potato chips in his hand, and nodded seriously, "Chuya's judgment is not wrong, the murderer is indeed among the students of those film clubs. middle."

Yukichi Maomao looked at him expectantly, and Edogawa Ranpo suddenly said angrily: "Mr. Yukichi, please don't take me as a prophet, please? My supernatural ability, super reasoning, is the ability to see through the truth at a glance. , instead of casually revealing the truth when I didn’t see anything, even the easy-chair detectives in those novels can’t do such a thing.”

"And more importantly, the body was discovered too late, and the suspects are still students, and now they are likely to be sent back." Edogawa Ranbu stretched out his hand and scratched his head, "As long as the murderer is not an idiot, Evidence that can be processed is estimated to have been disposed of.”

"I'm back." Just as they were talking, Zhong Yuanzhong, another key figure in the incident, also came back.

After seeing Yuji Maomao's nervous expression, Zhong Ye felt a little strange, "What's wrong?"

"Chuya, hurry up and tell me the clues you have found." Although he himself said that it is impossible to determine who the murderer is without knowing anything, seeing that this is Yuji Maomao's first A case of asking myself, my answer is that I don't know, does Edogawa Ranpo want to lose face?Thinking of this, the detective couldn't help but patted the table hard and said.

"Yes..." Zhong also quickly stepped forward and took out a work he had transcribed that was previously filmed by the film agency, and then talked about the results of the inspection by the forensics department.

The murderer was well-prepared, and the forensic staff did not find anything useful. They only confirmed that the murder scene was indeed in the gymnasium. The murder weapon might be a kitchen knife, but they couldn't find out more.

Today is the campus festival, and almost all food stalls in the whole school may use this thing.

And it was not the victim's blood that was used to draw the following Scorpio horoscope map-in fact, the victim's bleeding was not large-but the artificial plasma bought by the film company for filming.This point once again convinced people that the murderer was definitely one of the film clubs.

There is no other useful information.

While watching the film made by the students and won the film festival award, Edogawa Luanpo nodded while listening to their explanation, "Okay, I already know, Chuya, call the household registration department and ask Ask about the family status of those students from the film club, the key point is to ask if anyone in their family has died or disappeared."

"Mr. Ranpo, is this enough?" Yosano Akiko asked in surprise.

"That's enough, didn't you just say that the murderer's display of the corpse like this is a form of resentment?" The young detective shook his head, "I think I and Dazai were both arbitrary just now, this is indeed a form of resentment kind, but more of a signal of revenge."

Zhong Ye, who was about to make a phone call, was stunned, "Revenge?"

"Yeah, to avenge my family." Luanbu rewinds to the climax of this movie called "The Great Pursuit". The moment the person being chased is about to jump up and jump over two buildings, he After pressing pause, he beckoned Yuji Maomao to come over, "Look, in this frame, when this person takes off, he uses his left foot, and except for this frame, the other protagonists who can see their faces take off They all use the right foot."

"Stand-in actor?" Atsushi Nakajima didn't quite understand. It's not super normal for a stand-in actor to appear when he's making a movie or a TV show.

"But it's not in the list of staff behind them." Edogawa Ranpo dragged the timeline to show them again, "Look for yourself, their crew has even included the list of actors and post-production co-workers. , but there is no such column as a stuntman, isn't it very abnormal?"

"The only explanation is that the stand-in actor may have had an accident during filming and fell to his death." Osamu Dazai added, "So the actor's family found out about this after they went to college, and wanted to Take revenge on your family."

"I'll go with you tomorrow too." Edogawa ran his hands behind his head and leaned back on the chair completely, "If the other party really wants revenge, he will definitely continue to do it of."

"Ah..." Edogawa Ranpo sighed in a rare way, "I really hope that the other party will make a move but also don't want to make a move."

Yuji Maomao could somewhat understand his complicated mood, leaned over and hugged the detective, then took away the snack bag on his table, and ran to make him some snacks.

Early the next morning, Zhong also took Edogawa Ranpo and set off for Tokyo. This time, Yuji Maomao must follow him to have a look. Big Mao is very curious about this case, and at the same time wants to I wanted to observe the famous detective's case-solving action on the spot, so I followed along together softly.

On the way to Tokyo, Edogawa Ranpo sat on the Shinkansen and fell asleep, and Yukichi Maomao simply put someone on his body to catch up on sleep. This scene was quite beautiful in Nakahara Chuya's eyes, but It might look weird to others, but fortunately, the Japanese are more accustomed to the idea of ​​"not causing trouble to others", so although everyone thinks this picture is very subtle, no one will complain in person.

Since no one said it face to face, they acted as if nothing had happened.

When they came to the school again, today's campus was more lively than yesterday. Yesterday's incident was fermented on social networks, and it has been circulated among a large number of students. Many students came to watch the gymnasium out of curiosity. However, there were not many people from the film club to watch.

Nakahara Nakaya, as a detective commissioned by the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, came to the club activity room of the film club early in the morning.He had already come here once yesterday to copy the movie, so when he came here again today, he even felt a little familiar.

Yuji Maomao had never been to such an activity room before, followed Nakahara Nakaya, opened the door and walked in with his head down. At a glance, he saw a large amount of film and various props that had never been seen before.

"Huh? Why is it you again? Why was you the first thing I saw when I came to the office early in the morning!" A slightly fat man was sitting in a strange machine that neither two people nor one cat could name. In front of him, he couldn't help complaining, "Tsk, this time the film was turned upside down, it's really bad luck!"

"We're back." At the door, members of the film club came back one after another.

And it was at this time that Edogawa Ranpo suddenly said, "You go and surrender, the last thing you should do is to commit a crime in front of me, a famous detective."

As he spoke, he walked to the cabinet where the props were placed, and opened the cabinet door quickly. There were several dummies inside, but he wrapped his hand with a handkerchief very quickly, stretched out his hand and grabbed one of them and pulled it out. He fell heavily to the ground, making a sound that was obviously not what a dummy would have when he landed, and the astrology chart of Scorpio was also drawn on the clothes on his chest.

Zhong Ye stepped forward quickly, put on his gloves and checked, "This man is already dead."

When he turned around, he saw his famous detective looking sharply at the crowd behind him, "Surrender yourself, you can't escape, Miss Miscellaneous. You still have lint on this man's clothes at your elbow , you should keep the bottle of poison in your carry-on bag when poisoning this guy, and most importantly, in order to be able to move the corpse more safely, given your size, you must first put the corpse on a cart and transport it in, and wait After arriving at the activity room, because the place is full of things, the cart can’t get in, you have to carry the dead inside, so just check, there is definitely hair, dander, and even saliva of the dead on your coat.”